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' Lam-8 Para No. 67,813, dated August 1s, 1867.

MACHINES POR GUTTING'AND PUNGHING PAPER.

T0 AIiL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Beit known that I, JOHN T. S. SMITH, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented anew and useful improvement in Machines for Cutting Paper or other material into equal or graduated lengths, of which the following is a full, elea-r, and exact description,reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, and in whicl1 Figure 1 represents a plan cfa machine constructed according to my improvement.

Figure 2, a. longitudinal section of the saine, takenas indicated by the line a; n: in tig. 1 and Figure 3 an end view thereof.

Figure 4 is a diagramillustrating the action of the lnachue to the manufacture of partitions for card or paper boxes.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The nature of this inventionconsists in a peculiar-'combination of devices, including a sector or other equivalently-shaped c'utter, holding clamp and feeding-foot, with regulating screw, for cutting paper or other material into equal or graduated lengths. p l

Referring to the accompanying drawing, A represents the bed or table on which the paper in. strips, or other material to be cut, is placed. i This bed or table, which is supported on suitable pedestals prl'ef ework, carries' or has connected with it, along one of its sides or edges, a horizontally rotating shaft, li, d 'ven by any convenient power, and carryinggat or near its one end, a steel or steel-edged or faced cutter, that, for making mere straight incisions, such as represented by the diagram in iig. 3, is here shownA as vef plain or straight sector.'

form, and set, as it is rotated, to work through a slot,'a, arranged between bars b b', 1ct into the bed, the outer one (b) of which may be ,made adjustable by screws c, to allow of any desired thickness of stationary steel-cutter or dividing-strip d being placed between them, the same, as also the movable cutter C, being shaped or formed according to the cut requiredto be madc, and which may be of angular characteig'as for cutting saw-teeth, or

other suitable configuration, according to the work to be done, or materialto beV operated upon. It will sutiiceA here, however, by way of illustration, tol refer to the same aseonstructed for making'straight incisions in card or paper for forming partitions in boxes such as are used in4 putting up homoeopathiemedicines, and as repre sented by the diagram in tig. 4 ofthe drawing. v

The paper, pasteboard, or card thus to'be'cut is fed in a strip over the table A, along an adjustable gauge, D, and under a. 'spring-borne clamp or holder, E, arranged over a slot,u e, in the bed, in or through and along which, for jointreciprocating action at intervals with the holder E, is a serrated or other feeding-foot, F. These4 two devices, that is, the holder E aii'd footiF carry and feed the paper to the cutters, and may be thus operated. On the driving-shaftlis a.l partial spiral'or worm-thread,f, which acts against an inclined plane or Astud, g, of or on a frame-piece,7z which is connected with the holder E, and also with a sliding-bar, z', that carries the foot F, so that the holder E and font F actin unison. The partial spiral f scrves to give the forward or feeding motion at intervalsto the paper held -between said holder and. foot, up to or in proper position for the cutter C to. act`upon it, the foot and helder, after theyhave established a feed', being thrown or drawn back, to take afresh hold or feed, by means of a spring, c, on a sliding-rod, l, attached to the sliding-bar z'. In this way a series of comb-like incisions are made in the paper as it is fed past the cutter, the sector-form or other equivalent construction of the cutter C insuring e perfect cut, and giving time or free feed of the paper for a'fresh or further incision. The distance apart of such or other shaped incisions may be regulated by a screw, m, preferably provided with a. locking-nut, n, and arranged to act upon the sliding-bar z', so as to adjust the incline g for shorter -or longer action on it by the'partial spiral f. Where the incisions are required so be at irregular dis tances apart, then the screw m may be automatically operated in a correspondingly irregular manner by gear from the driving-shaft B.

What is here claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with the continuously-revolving cutter C, constructed to cut only at intervals in each rotation, and stationary cutter d, with the feeding-foot F and holder E, having anintermittently reciprocating action, as described, by means of the partial spiralf, incline or stud g, and spring c, with its rod l, or equivalents-of these devices, and regulatingscrew m to the slide z' ofthe h'older and feeding-foot, substantially as and for the purpose or purposes herein set forth.A

-OHN T. S. SMITH.

Witnesses:

J. W. Cocinas, G. W. REED. 

